And I found one estimate where after a year season 1 had sold nearly a million copies. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the epic fantasy series was developed by David Benioff and D.B. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Will Cost HBO More Than $90 Million WINTER IS COSTLY Updated Sep. 28, 2017 11:10AM ET / Published Sep. 28, 2017 11:05AM ET In short, there are now 43 million people watching GoT in just the US alone. And it’s not just the US. Even in its big library deal with Amazon for $300 million per year, GoT wasn’t included. If you’d like to know more about the calculations that went into this article, check out my series of articles explaining the TV business through a battle for “the next Game of Thrones” between Amazon, Netflix and HBO. (Those numbers include both HBO and Cinemax subscriptions, and digital.) What We Know So Far. 'This Is Us' Season 5 Schedule: When the Next Episode 5 Will Return. Second, the gigantic battles are as huge as I described above. 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GoT‘s highest per season marketing budget was $20 million for Season 8, up from $7 million in previous seasons according to the Wall Street Journal. Feel free to email me at editorial.dept@finance-monthly.com if you have any questions or interesting content to send over! HBO doesn’t do any product placement within Game of Thrones, unless you count Starbucks. Let’s start with the easiest estimates to find, the production costs. Back in the yesteryears of 2011, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs were still a thing. Where To Stream the Old Films Before the Disney+ Remake, 9 Best Thanksgiving Movies for Kids and How to Watch, 'The Craft: Legacy' Has A Bi Coming Out Scene I Wish I’d Seen As a Teen, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Equal' On HBO Max, A Docuseries On The Early Pioneers Of The LGBTQIA+ Rights Movement, Who Are 'The Boys In The Band'? After a failed Game of Thrones pilot in 2009, HBO ordered an extensive re-shoot before the series officially launched in 2011. 801. Is this a paid theme or did you modify it yourself? That’s because how much money a TV series makes is a closely guarded secret by HBO, like it is with most studios. Then, I’ve added in some “fees” for my final calculations. …$2.28 billion on Game of Thrones. The show's CGI dragons and epic battle scenes don't come cheap. Cooper' on HBO, a Moody Documentary About a Skyjacker Who Parachuted Into Infamy, 'American Factory' Is the Perfect Chaser To Netflix's 'Hillbilly Elegy'. Finance Monthly is a global publication delivering news, comment and analysis to those at the centre of the corporate sector. That’s a bit too aggressive. 111,021, This story has been shared 9,343 times. I assume this rate continued, with a big bump for Season 5 and beyond. (That sounds low, but in my experience is very reasonable.) Stream It Or Skip It: 'Black Beauty' on Disney+, in Which Kate Winslet Gives Voice To the Inner Thoughts of a Horse, Is 'Black Beauty' on Netflix? Since then, the costs have crept up, and up, and up. Using those numbers and a bunch of other estimates—like my own customer lifetime value calculations—it got me to my estimate of the value per subscriber: Conservatively, I think that Game of Thrones alone has driven $1.9 billion in subscription value for HBO over the last 9 years or so. In other words, a profit of roughly $285 million per season. With two big battles so far this season, it … Weiss. Game of Thrones cost an astronomical amount of money to make during its eight-season run on HBO. Weiss more time and money to get the series right. All eight seasons, spanning 73 episodes and bringing together 566 characters, cost HBO a mere $30.90 per viewer. HBO had been flat in subscriber growth from about 2010 to 2011, even declining between 2009 and 2010. If I couldn’t figure it out, well, I used my best estimates and sometimes just guesses. How Much Money Has HBO Made from Game of Thrones? With a total show budget of $1.5 Billion, the show has earned $3.1 Billion through HBO subscriptions alone. If you’re still with me, here’s all the calculations, with my estimates per season: So, like the headline of this article states, it appears that HBO made about $2.2 billion from Game of Thrones. Everything about Game of Thrones is big. Ireland has previously said through the first three season they provided about $14 million in tax credits to the production and I just extended that rate. Like epic big. GoT is clearly great at driving new subscriber growth, but quantifying that is pretty hard, because it involves determining how much value any individual subscriber puts on GoT. But educated guesses. In the first year after its release in October 2017, Game of Thrones: Conquest, a mobile strategy game based on the series, grossed more than $125 … Whilst the budgets of Game of Thrones have steadily increased over 8 seasons, due to the huge popularity of the show it now only costs HBO $2.37 a viewer per season. 810, This story has been shared 801 times. How to Watch Dua Lipa's Studio 2054 Livestream, Interim 'Jeopardy' Host Ken Jennings Under Fire for Insensitive Tweets, The 11 Best Streaming Service Bundles and Deals of 2020, 'Drew Barrymore Show' Under Fire for Giving a Teacher and His Alleged Former Student a "Fairy Tale Wedding", Stream It or Skip It: 'The Christmas House' on Hallmark Is the Best Hallmark Holiday Movie of the Year. i have set game of throne song as my ringtone, I am extremely impressed with your writing skills as well as with the layout on your blog. After that, HBO has been relatively stingy on selling Game of Thrones to other TV channels. A former exec at a streaming company, he prefers writing to sending emails/attending meetings, so he launched his own website. But while I could provide links to all the facts above, I can’t tell you if this is the case. Canada, Italy, Russia, Singapore and many more countries, sold hundreds of thousands of units in their first week released each, one estimate where after a year season 1 had sold nearly a million copies, Season 1 reportedly sold for $2.5 million per episode internationally, Even in its big library deal with Amazon for $300 million per year, Ireland has previously said through the first three season they provided about $14 million in tax credits to the production. 847, This story has been shared 829 times. Add it up, and from 2011 to 2019 (and beyond), over eight seasons I project that HBO has made/will make…. This story has been shared 111,021 times. (The Westworld actors earn $250K for their highest paid stars, for instance.). ThinkMoney have played the ‘Game of Numbers’ to find out just how profitable the sprawling epic has been to HBO ahead of the season finale. HBO even had a small run at IMAX theaters for Season 4, and I included that at about a million dollars. In the agent’s case, they get a 3% fee off the production budget for “packaging” the series. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! to receive all of the latest news from the world of Finance. According to estimates, previous showpiece episodes of the series, which are almost always episodes 8 and 9, have cost up to $8 million per episode, with the budget dropping to about $6 million for the other episodes. When looking at which characters have earned the most for HBO per minute on screen, Grey Worm tops the list, earning $953,378 for. Tyrese Gibson and Jahzir Bruno Want the Same Thing from 'Christmas Chronicles 3': More Stunts! In a shift many years in the making, electric vehicles are finally becoming a bull market. Mike Tyson Vs. 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